📕 Excerpt from Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Physiques Et Naturelles de Bordeaux, 1896, Vol. 2Au commencement du siècle, on admettait que toute action qui dégage de la chaleur est une combinaison, que toute action qui absorbe de la chaleur est une décomposition.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.